Cover Manager
Avanti Grange Secondary School, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2BD5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
30 June 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 6 - £30,811 - £32,693 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Avanti Grange Secondary School is seeking to appoint a diligent and proactive individual to the position of Cover Manager. The successful post holder will manage cover for day-to-day, short-term and long-term absences for teaching and support staff, minimising disruption to the effective running of the school.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a school rated Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted in May 2025. Avanti Grange is part of Avanti Schools Trust, a twelve-school multi-academy trust committed to educational excellence and the development of well-rounded young people.
This role is central to the smooth operation of the school day. It is important that the post holder is confident in the use of IT and school management information systems; experience of Arbor would be advantageous, though training will be provided. You will also need to be confident providing classroom supervision when required as part of the role.
The post holder will line manage the Cover Supervisor team and liaise with external supply agencies, maintaining accurate absence records and producing regular reports for the Senior Leadership Team.
What will you do?
- Plan, coordinate and arrange daily cover for all absent staff, ensuring that all lessons and duties are appropriately covered each day.
- Review and improve the effectiveness of cover management systems on an ongoing basis to increase efficiency and support safeguarding.
- Build effective professional relationships across the school community.
- Provide classroom supervision in the absence of a teacher, implementing lesson plans left by the absent member of staff.
For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description
What are we looking for?
- Reliable, well-organised and able to remain calm under pressure
- Experienced in cover management, school administration or a similar role in a secondary setting
- Confident in the use of IT with high standards of accuracy and record-keeping
- A strong communicator with the ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Committed to safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
What the school offers its staff
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- great opportunities for professional development
- pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
- O2 discounts
- NUS Card
- Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Access to multiple well-being programmes
Cycle to work schemes
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Grange Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 464 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Grange Secondary School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Grange is a school that is committed to giving all children an engaging and enriching educational experience. We provide a richly diverse and connected school environment, representative of the world that our pupils will enter. Our pupils mature into individuals who are ambitious, open-minded and confident. Along with our academic pathway, we also take care to support individual character formation and spiritual insight through The Avanti Way.
Each pupil at our school is celebrated for their individual talents. For our pupils’, school is about exploring strengths and developing academic and personal skills that will ensure that every child is well prepared for the quickly changing world that awaits them. It is our promise that we will create an environment of challenge, enjoyment and collaboration, both within our school and throughout the Avanti Schools Trust and beyond.
Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.
Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.
Arranging a visit to Avanti Grange Secondary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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